Multimodality Imaging of the Peripheral Venous System

Dark Chocolate Intake Acutely Enhances Neutrophil Count in Peripheral Venous Blood

Beside the well-established impact on decreasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases (1), recent attention has been paid to the relationship between cocoa-containing foods and the immune system (2), showing that dark chocolate consumption enhances the systemic defense against bacterial (3) and viral (4) infections. Hence, the current study aimed at investigating the acute effect of dark chocola...

Multimodality imaging of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease: current role and future directions.

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging is available at http://circimaging.ahajournals.org DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.970814 Received January 31, 2012; accepted September 11, 2012. From the Departments of Medicine (A.W.P., P.T.N., C.M.K) and Radiology (P.T.N., C.M.K.), and the Cardiovascular Imaging Center, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA. Correspondence to Christopher M. Kramer, MD...

Multimodality imaging of anomalous pulmonary veins

Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is an extremely rare congenital condition where one or more of the pulmonary veins are connected to the venous circulation. Although initially suspected with unexplained right ventricular enlargement on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), cardiac MRI is able to delineate the anatomical variant. We present a case of a 65-year-old male diagn...

Prospects for multimodality imaging in peripheral artery disease.

A Minimally Invasive Multimodality Image-Guided (MIMIG) Molecular Imaging System for Peripheral Lung Cancer Intervention and Diagnosis

The once-promising computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening appears to result in high false positive rates. To tackle the common difficulties in diagnosing small lung cancer at an early stage, we developed a minimally invasive multimodality image-guided (MIMIG) interventional system for early detection and treatment of peripheral lung cancer. The system consists of new CT image segmentati...